2. Who will be the first to open his mouth and erase any doubt that he's an idiot?

The Patriots' run vs. pass percentage, of course, will remain a mystery until Sunday at Gillette Stadium, but we are 100 percent sure of the answer to question 2. It's Ray Lewis, who told Stephen A. Smith on Tuesday that the tuck rule is the only reason we know who Tom Brady is.

Before we get into the black-and-white of absurdity, let's consider the 50 shades of Jonas Gray.

The last time the Patriots faced the Colts, Gray ended up on the cover of Sports Illustrated stampeding over the clever kicker, "The Relentless, Anonymous Brilliance of the New England Patriots." Gray's anonymity — undrafted in 2012, failed attempts to hook on with Miami and Baltimore, 131 total NFL yards — ended on Nov. 16 when he carried the football a jaw-dropping 38 times for 201 yards and four touchdowns in a 42-20 triumph.

Later that day, Brady watched the Colts face the Broncos. The winner would face the Patriots,...

An ankle injury and tardiness for work helped push Gray off the field and out of the headlines. He has run for only 80 yards since Indianapolis. He missed the regular season finale against Buffalo with that ankle problem. He was listed as probable for the Ravens playoff game and had practiced, but was inactive.

This didn't stop a bunch of reporters from rushing Gray's locker two minutes before the Patriots' room was closed to the media.

"Since the last time we played them, they're playing with a lot more momentum," Gray said. "They have got a few key guys back in a few areas. They're rallying to the ball. They're tackling better and more physical. Overall, man, this is going to be the best defense we've played all year.

Speaking to reporters at Gillette Stadium Wednesday morning, Belichick was effusive in his praise...

"My approach is the same as always, whether we're playing the Colts or not, whether I had a good game against the Colts or not. This is a big game. Stakes are high. They're playing a lot better."

ESPN analyst Tedy Bruschi went on WEEI on Monday and stumped for Gray. The former Patriots linebacker said give the kid a chance.

"Sometimes this coaching staff has a tendency to outthink themselves," Bruschi told WEEI. "Most of the time it works, you see all the intellectual thought that went into that game plan [against the Ravens] and the different formations and how you attack people with trick plays and things like that. And the timing of it, I mean that way, too, they sometimes overthink things. I hope they don't do that this week because this Colts team can be run on."

Belichick thinks too much? You think?

The Patriots passed the ball 60.4 percent of their snaps in 2014, 14th of 32 NFL teams. Against the Ravens, however, the Patriots threw a whopping 79.7 percent — 13 rushes, 51 passes — and Tom Brady didn't hand off to a runner at all in the second half. Against the Colts in November, by contrast, they ran the ball 44 of 74 plays (59.4 percent) for 246 of their 503 total yards.

So the question posed to Belichick was a good one. Is it easier or more difficult to game-plan for a rematch?

"I think it's pretty much the same every week," Belichick said. "Whatever the information is that you can access, that can come from a lot of different perspectives. Sometimes it's too much information. Sometimes it's not enough. Sometimes it's right there in the middle. Whatever it is you have to sort it all out and make some decisions.

"The challenges the Colts bring are certainly numerous. We just have to filter it out."

In other words, keep guessing, and when you are finished guessing, guess again. Ravens defensive end Chris Canty said the Patriots pulled out every trick in the book. Well, maybe not every one. You've got to figure Josh McDaniels and Belichick have something else up their hoodies.

Part of me says that the Patriots are going to run it down the Colts' throat again. Part of me says, no, they're going to pick 'em apart in the air. The rest of me says they're going to line up only nine receivers in different numbered uniforms like the old Red Army hockey team and declare four of them ineligible.

Colts defensive tackle Arthur Jones missed the first game. He's back. And if center Bryan Stork, who left the Ravens game with a knee injury, is out, that could complicate matters for the Patriots. Still, the Colts have given up more than 100 yards on the ground in the past handful of games. They also allowed 234 of 422 total yards on the ground last year in the playoffs to the Patriots as LeGarrette Blount pounded them for 166 yards and became the first player in NFL history to rush for at least 150 and score four touchdowns in a playoff game. The Patriots ran 46 times that game. Brady threw only 25 passes. Although the Patriots have run 61.2 percent of the time against the Colts the past two years, according to NFL.com, they've run only 39.5 percent against the rest of the league.

"Defensively, [the Colts] are a little different than the team we saw a couple of months ago," Belichick said. "They're very disruptive up front."

So do the Colts put everything into stopping the run? Or do they take their chances? That's the Colts problem and one that figures to keep Chuck Pagano's staff on edge this week. Brady joked Wednesday that his wife, Gisele, often addresses his pregame edginess this way: "What's your problem?" That question should be directed to Lewis.

"The first time we created something called a tuck rule, it's the only reason we know — I'm just being honest — the only reason we know who Tom Brady is is because of a tuck rule," Lewis, the former Ravens linebacker turned ESPN analyst, told Smith on Sirius Radio "There's no such thing as a tuck rule! If the ball is in your hand and I knock it out your hand, whether it's going backward, forward, lateral, sideways, however it's coming out, that's a freaking fumble! But guess what we created? We created a freaking tuck rule!"

Actually, the tuck rule, erased in 2013, was created in 1999. That's three years before Charles Woodson of the Raiders stripped Brady in a playoff game.

"They don't go to that championship game … if that ball is not called a tuck! That's a fumble!" Lewis said. "Charles Woodson made that man clearly fumble the ball and they named it the tuck rule, something that we've never heard in today's game. So now you've got to ask yourself: When did the legacy really start?"

And when does the idiocy end? Surely, Ray Lewis wouldn't want his legacy judged on one moment in his life. OK, you can say Brady's legacy of three Super Bowl victories started in that game in the snow and ended with a Super Bowl victory against the Rams in the Superdome. Lewis, however, forgot to mention that Brady has since led the Patriots to four Super Bowls, winning two, and if David Tyree doesn't make a miracle catch off his helmet, he has another one. He forgot to mention that Brady is the all-time leader in postseason victories and yardage and touchdowns thrown.